Antarctica looks like the set of a science fiction epic, a continent of jagged ice cliffs, neon auroras and endless white horizons. Yet by the strict standards scientists use, it is not just a frozen ...

New Antarctica map reveals a landscape of hidden valleys and channels beneath ice, improving sea-level rise and ice flow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...

Explore China's proposed Antarctic Activities and Environmental Protection Law and its implications for governance and environmental protection in Antarctica.

What's under the ice? For the first time, scientists have been able to map the mountains and valleys under the ice of Antarctica.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great ...

A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...

Microplastics have entered Antarctica’s soil ecosystem, subtly affecting its only native insect and revealing how far human ...

The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...